Do You Have Fitness ADD?

I have to say it.  Fitness ADD is running rampant.  And, no I don’t mean math skills, I mean Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)!  The misinformed, and some who should know better, running from program to program looking for, but never finding, the holy grail of fitness training.  They never stay with a program long enough to actualize the real results inherent within it.  Exercises are changed up on a daily basis to stave off boredom or keep it interesting or to never plateau or to confuse the muscles, or whatever nonsense people tell themselves.  But really it’s a problem of commitment; actually sticking to a program to reap all the promised results from it.

How to Make Progress

For me personally, the most progress I’ve ever made in my training has always come from the times I’ve committed and stuck to the program I was following.  Of course I fall off the wagon sometimes, just like you do.  I make mistakes in my training.  I am guilty of looking for shortcuts or trying to find (or create) the perfect program only to get stuck in a rut of constantly starting over again.  But then I step back and realize that what I’m doing is not getting me anywhere, or at least not getting me anywhere I want to be in relation to my goals.  So I buckle down and submit to the pain of discipline rather than revel in regret, and I do the work following the program I’ve laid out for myself.  I know by now that my greatest gains and most profound insights only come when from committing to my training full on.

No Perfect Program

You see, there really is no such thing as the perefect program.  They are ALL flawed, some moreso than others.  This is why sports science invented cycles.  The real question for you to answer is – what are your specific goals right now and which training program is not only geared towards acheiveing them, but also appeals to you and resonates with you?  Then just pick one and go.  Go with everything you’ve got and you will never be disappointed.  If you spend too much of your time vascillating between all the various and sundry programs out there you will get nowhere and achive nothing.  You’ll be lost in the morass of paralysis by analysis.

Make a choice.

Cut off all other possibilities (for the duration of the program), and do the damn work!

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Jon

Jon Haas, "The Warrior Coach" has been training in Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu for more than 25 years and is currently ranked as a Kudan (9th degree black belt) under Jack Hoban Shihan. He has also trained in Okinawan Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Russian Systema, BJJ, Krav Maga, as well as Internal Martial Arts of Yiquan and Aiki.He is a certified Underground Strength Coach-Level 2, a certified Personal Trainer as well as founder of Warrior Fitness Training Systems. In 2008, Jon wrote the book, Warrior Fitness: Conditioning for Martial Arts, and since then has created numerous other online training and coaching programs helping people around the world become the strongest, most capable versions of themselves!

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